News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on solid and organic waste management in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 3 July 2019
The best practices in waste and landfill management technologies based on the example of two resort areas, Shchuchinsk-Borovskaya and Bayanaul, were the focus of an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion held in Nur-Sultan on 2 July 2019.
OSCE supports seminar on application of Pollution Release Transfer Register in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 21 June 2019
An OSCE-supported training seminar on the application of the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) for some 40 government officials and private sector and civil society representatives took place on 21 June in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports evaluation workshop and on-site training in improving mining and tailings safety in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 June 2019
An OSCE-supported on-site training and evaluation workshop under an UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) project on improving mining and tailings safety, with special attention to transboundary implications on the territories of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, concluded on 13 June 2019 in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan.
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on causes of mass fish death in Ural River
Publishing date: 4 April 2019
An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on environmental problems in the Atyrau Region including the recent death of numerous tonnes of fish in the Ural River concluded on 3 April 2019 in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
OSCE Programme Office in Astana supports 25th meeting of Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan joint commission on transboundary Chu and Talas rivers management
Publishing date: 15 March 2019
An OSCE-supported meeting of the Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic on the Use of Water Management Facilities of Intergovernmental Status on the Rivers Chu and Talas (Intergovernmental Commission) took place on 14 March 2019 in Taraz, Kazakhstan...
Environmental issues in Kazakhstan focus of OSCE-supported training seminar
Publishing date: 25 February 2019
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported a training seminar on conducting and monitoring public hearings as a tool for public participation in environmental decision making on 23 February 2019 in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on regulating release and marketing of genetically modified organisms in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 November 2018
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported a roundtable discussion on steps Kazakhstan could take to regulate the release and marketing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)- any organism or microorganism, including agricultural products, whose genetic material has been altered by means of genetic engineering- on 20 November 2018 in Astana...